Security Advisory - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in the 'Find Phone' Function of some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170125-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 25, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jan 25, 2017
The 'Find Phone' function of some Huawei smart phones has an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may wipe and factory reset the phone by special steps. Due to missing authentication of the 'Find Phone' function, an attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass the 'Find Phone' function in order to use the phone normally. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-11096)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2708.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170125-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Nice |
Versions earlier before Nice-AL00C00B0135 |
Nice-AL00C00B0135 |
An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass the 'Find Phone' function in order to use the phone normally.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.3(E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. An attacker got phone because user lost it or it was stolen.
Vulnerability details:
An unauthenticated attacker may wipe and factory reset the phone by special steps. Due to missing authentication of the 'Find Phone' function, an attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass the 'Find Phone' function in order to use the phone normally.
Mobile phones that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2017-01-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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